Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

“More of this”, i said to the dog.

Everybody saw this coming.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

Infrastructure week. at last.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

Let there be snark.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

All your base are belong to Tunch.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President.

In my day, never was longer.

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  2. 2.

    gogol's wife

    Fabulous cartoon! But was the sound track added by the YouTube person? Betty Boop is my hero. Was this the original cartoon, or messed with?

  4. 4.

    JGabriel

    For Labor Day, here’s an Elvis Costello lyric:

    The salty lips of the socialite sisters
    With their continental fingers that
    Never seen work and blisters
    Oh I know they’ve got their problems
    I wish I was one of them

    .

  6. 6.

    JPL

    @Mark S.: It won’t be the teabilly congress who shuts the doors to the post office. It will be the President because he refused to privatize and cut medicare benefits to pay for the postal service. Get with the program Mark.

  8. 8.

    Dennis SGMM

    After hearing the author give a brief interview on NPR I picked up Benjamin Black’s Christine Falls.

    Benjamin Black is the pseudonym of prize-winning Irish author John Banville. Banville is a prolific novelist and screenwriter. Christine Falls is his first crime novel. I find it to be one hell of a good read because of Black’s superb prose, well-drawn characters, and a plot that has me turning pages far into the night.

    Highly recommended.

  9. 9.

    gogol's wife

    @Dennis SGMM:

    Thanks for the recommendation. I’ve been wondering if he’s any good. He wrote a hilarious (negative) review of one of Ian MacEwan’s books in the NY Review of Books, and I’ve been curious about him ever since.

  10. 10.

    catclub

    I watched “Inspector Lewis” last night on masterpiece theatre. As far as I could tell there were great big holes in the plot.
    I will not post all the spoilers, but did anyone else watch and think the same thing.

    For instance: Why was the girl on the motorcycle killed?
    How was the killer inside the college at 1am when she lives in a house off campus? How did she know to meet the girl on the motorcycle, outside, at 1am?

    2. How lucky was the killer to find an ex-policewoman drunk at 3am and walking about her boatyard? An ex-policewoman who knows – or likely suspects here involvement in the old murder?

    There are others. One does not quite notice these things during the show, but five minutes after, I come up with all these ‘what the heck? questions.

  11. 11.

    Commish

    Fantasy Football update!

    The Elitist Meritocracy Conference of the BJFL is full up with top performers from last year’s 4 conferences. I am too lazy to run more than one conference, but other juicers have stepped into the breach. The Wingnut Welfare Conference of the BJFL is now open for signup on Yahoo; the password to join is alsotoo:
    http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/league/bjfl_wingnutwelfare

    Another B-J regular has set up a third league on ESPN.com. He’s going to use an auction draft system – I’ve never played that way but it sounds interesting. Some other fine points of rules and scoring may be different too, but top finishers in this league will also be invited to the Elitist Conference in 2012:
    http://games.espn.go.com/ffl/leagueoffice?leagueId=290918

    Opening Day is Thursday and fantasy drafts are going down Tuesday-Wednesday of this week….don’t be late!

  13. 13.

    SiubhanDuinne

    NPR just informed me that Obama’s support from organized labor is eroding because unions are under attack in some states. WTF?

  14. 14.

    Dennis SGMM

    @Mark S.:

    After years of being the only top-tier industrialized nation not to have some form of UHC we may also gain the distinction of being the only top-tier industrialized nation without a Postal Service. We’re Number One!

    Any fix for the USPS seems to involve laying off hundreds of thousands of workers in an already moribund labor market. That will not work out well at all.

    You can bet that the Republicans are already preparing to swamp the media with their version of why people who are still reliant on postal mail won’t be getting their government checks, Christmas packages, etc. That version will follow the tried and true “This is the Democrats’ fault because they wouldn’t compromise with our common sense plan to make the long-term unemployed into pet food.” The media will nod sagely at whatever Dickensian plan that the R’s do come up with while the Beltway pundits will praise the R’s seriousness and their bold initiative.

    Which hard liquor goes best with popcorn?

  15. 15.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Dennis SGMM:

    Glad to see your recommendation. I heard that interview and mentally put Christine Falls on my TBR list. I like what I’ve read by Banville so far and have high expectations for this.

  16. 16.

    clayton

    Rick Perry bails on DeMint’s Forum!

    What are the odds he also bails on the debate scheduled for Wednesday? Given Perry’s track record — he’s not gonna show. And then what to make of all the nonsense last week over scheduling.

    It’d be laughable if it weren’t so depressing. . .

  18. 18.

    JPL

    @clayton: Perry scares the hell out of me because he doesn’t believe in the United States but I think he had no choice but return because of the wildfires and devastation near Austin.

  19. 19.

    gogol's wife

    @catclub:

    I hope you look back here, because I spend every night after “Lewis” trying to figure things like this out. I think the girl was killed because she found the body and the killer thought maybe she had seen something. The killer would have had access to the college since she was another of the myriad murderous professors they have at Oxford. The part about the policewoman puzzled me too. I guess she just lay in wait for her all night long. Didn’t she have those two girls over that night too?

  20. 20.

    clayton

    @JPL: Texas has been burning all spring and summer. That didn’t stop him from hawking his book across the country in the spring or running for president.

    In other words, why today?

  21. 21.

    Hal

    Reading a NYT article on Republican optimism, one comment a voter makes about Perry caught my eye:

    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/05/us/politics/05voices.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&hpw

    “Somebody like Perry is a very reputable candidate, he has a very serious record, he’s demonstrated a lot of ability to do what needs to be done,” said Denise Dahlberg, 55, a campus minister at Dartmouth. “Romney seems to know his economics, too.”

    A lot of ability to do what needs to be done? What the hell does that even mean? The article is full of unchallened statements like:

    “I’m looking for an economic fix,” said Don St. Germain, 49, the executive vice president of St. Mary’s Bank, who lives in Wolfeboro, N.H. “To me, it’s about getting the economy back on track and getting some jobs created, and that’s why Romney has some appeal. He’s done that.”

    What was job creation in MA under Romney? Weren’t they 47th during his term?

    Oh, and my fave:

    Last week, Mr. Obama faced yet another setback, when he and Speaker John A. Boehner quibbled over the date when Mr. Obama could deliver his jobs address to a joint session of Congress. The president eventually capitulated, and the episode only highlighted the president’s weakened political state.

    Really NYT? And if Obama hadn’t capitulated, you would be cheering his bold leadership, or would Modo write another article slamming the President for being a big baby whose ego wouldn’t let him reschedule a speech.

  23. 23.

    gogol's wife

    @Hal:

    I just steer away from any article written by Jeff Zeleny. His name means “green.”
    Seriously, it’s very, very depressing how they frame everything. And they’re the “liberal” press.

  28. 28.

    Stan of the Sawgrass

    Nice one! I mostly hate the later Boops, the long dress, etc., but this one’s pretty good. At least there’s no “Grampy.”

  29. 29.

    JPL

    @clayton: You might be right. My thinking had to do with not acting like a governor after three hundred homes burned and the wildfire is not contained. He’ll make a nice speech at the State House and then take a nap. He’s hoping the fires aren’t contained on Wednesday.

  31. 31.

    clayton

    @JPL: Now he’s cancelled his Tuesday schedule in California and supposedly tried to participate in DeMint’s forum remotely, but those guys conveniently said no, he couldn’t.

    One thing Perry won’t do is ask for budget off-sets for the money he’s surely going to try to shake the administration down for.

  32. 32.

    catclub

    @gogol’s wife: I agree on the reason the motorcycle girl was killed.

    It was Diana’s wrap that Hoppy went to fetch. Presumably because Diana was busy in conversation with her old students.
    But then she sneaks off and meets her at the top of the stairs. Nobody notices that she snuck off from a party in her honor to kill Hoppy.

    She was out all night waiting for the motorcycle girl to climb the fence, then out all the next night waiting for the policewoman. And also entertaining her houseguests.

    Busy beaver.

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